I used the LMI filler for this guitar. It is a 00-12 fret. I also use the MinWax Nitro . I applied the filler with a credit card and hope for a good payback . I use the Pore O Paq but did find the a friendly filler. LMI did a good job with it. It didn't dry so fast and had a bit of work time. As you can see I masked off the back purfling strip , then worked the filler in first with the grain then across. Dried to touch in about 10 minutes. I will sand that filler off tomorrow and allow a dry shrink time.

You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

After about 10 min I sprayed the top. I was surprised at the quality of the spray pattern. I gave this 1 light coat and was able to sand it in about 2 hr with 320 on my random orbital. After that I sprayed 2 coats about 20 min apart . I can see this is building a nice coat . Deft never did this so I am at this point giving MinWax a rating of 4 pickguards out of 6. I like the melt in of the coats and it is looking decent. I will post more after the leveling process.

You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

This is most interesting. I'd finished two guitars with Deft spray satin lacquer and I was very pleased with both. Always willing to try better products. It looks like the Minwax is a gloss finish. Can I assume that whatever properties the gloss version shows will also prevail in the satin versions?

sprayed the sides and back and again pleasantly surprised on the spray quality. I kept the can moving and about 8 in off the surface. Got good coverage and it covered about double that of the deft. I would rate this as good as behlen

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest

You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot post attachments in this forum